Implementing DRY Forms

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Published on 2012-06-11T08:22:15Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 16:40 UTC
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Getting into Play 2.0, overall, blown away, great stuff.

Anyway, wondering how one can achieve DRY forms in Play? If you look at the create & edit examples in the Computer Database Sample, you'll see that the form elements are repeated. With just 4 fields (in the sample form), no big deal, but when you're dealing with large, complex forms and/or handling many CRUD models, the duplication becomes a bigger maintenance issue.

On the binding end ( form.bindFromRequest and form.fill(Foo) ), the implementation is so elegant for create/edit operations; is there a corresponding solution in the template layer?

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